advocacy – Learning at the Libraryhttp://gottesman.pressible.org
Research tips, event recaps, how-to's and best kept secrets from TC's Gottesman Libraries.Thu, 23 May 2019 19:19:23 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.2Smoking Guns, Smoking Mirrors: A New Everett Cafe Book Displayhttp://gottesman.pressible.org/govan/smoking-guns-smoking-mirrors-a-new-everett-cafe-book-display
http://gottesman.pressible.org/govan/smoking-guns-smoking-mirrors-a-new-everett-cafe-book-display#respondThu, 07 Dec 2017 14:04:44 +0000http://gottesman.pressible.org/?p=28588Several years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a glass store front in our NYC Yorkville neighborhood still displays the devastating sign in bold black ink, “We will always remember our little angels.” Twenty miniature wax angels in Royal Stewart gowns symbolize the innocent children who lost their lives on that fateful day, December 14th, 2012, while they numbingly remind us of another one: March 13th, 1996 — this time, Dunblane, Scotland, where sixteen primary school children and two teachers also died at the hands of a crazed gunman.

As the list of mass shootings grows — with violent killings in our schools and churches, theaters, night clubs, and malls, we are paralyzed by the haunting inability to stop them — begging the question as to when, and how, we must, and at what cost. Can tighter legal restrictions on guns save lives? Or will gun control laws do nothing to impact violent behaviors? Deceptive or insubstantial, is the argument or explanation — but on which side of the trigger? Even after Charleston, Orlando, and Las Vegas, the U.S. continues to remain divided on the pressing issue of gun control, while the anniversary of Sandy Hook serves as yet another grim reminder.

A study published in Lancet finds that implementing universal background checks for the purchase of firearms or ammunition, and firearm identification internationally, could substantially reduce firearm mortality in the U.S. — almost as much as 50 percent, if federal checks alone are done. More telling, if just thee gun control laws were adopted nation-wide, then deaths from forearms could be reduced by a staggering 90 percent. The Washington Post rebutted with the article, “Why This Gun Control Study Might Be Too Good to Be True“, outlining the reasons why.

Smoking Guns, Smoking Mirrors: Where Do You Stand? presents the complexity of gun control, from the history and interpretation of the second amendment, to the tragedies of killings by shooters in our schools and communities. It urges us to consider what it means to bear arms, and to take a stand on our rights and responsibilities as educators, parents and citizens.

Stuck between the constitutional right to bear arms and need to do what’s right, it’s too late to take back the lives, but perhaps not to ensure a safer future. Commonplace in our schools, lockdown drills may be a necessary part of today’s equation, but they are far from the complete answer. Let’s look in the mirror, heed the smoke, and start addressing the complex problem of mass shootings from a more holistic perspective that begins with law, but embraces education, psychology, and health.

]]>http://gottesman.pressible.org/govan/smoking-guns-smoking-mirrors-a-new-everett-cafe-book-display/feed0Child Abuse Prevention: A Select Bibliographyhttp://gottesman.pressible.org/govan/child-abuse-prevention-a-select-bibliography
http://gottesman.pressible.org/govan/child-abuse-prevention-a-select-bibliography#commentsTue, 09 Apr 2013 18:24:57 +0000http://gottesman.pressible.org/?p=18532April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. The April 10th Everett Cafe news display will feature advocacy efforts, and the Socratic conversation, Generational Patterns of Familial Child Abuse, with Natalie Millman, CU social work student, will focus on strategies for working with abused children and advocate for change on a multi-systems level. Also on April 11th, the Center for Opportunities and Outcomes for People with Disabilities will offer pinwheels for prevention, while books will be displayed for reference and follow-up.

To support study and research in the field, we highlight relevant resources from the Gottesman Libraries. This select bibliography includes books, children’s literature, memoirs, databases, websites, and more.

Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Generation Workshop. Child maltreatment research, policy, and practice for the next decade. Workshop summary by Steve Olson and Clare Stroud, Rapporteurs, Board on Children, Youth, and Families, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, c2012.

Dubowitz, Howard. World perspectives on child abuse: An official publication of the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. 10th ed. Aurora, Colo.: ISPCAN, 2010. OVERSIZE HV6626.5 .W66 2012

Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary database providing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for more than one hundred journals.

APA PsycNET is the single search interface for PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycCRITIQUES, and PsycEXTRA.

PsycARTICLES is a full-text database of journals published by the American Psychological Association and other publishers in subject areas such as applied psychology, health, theory, research, social/personality, and more.

PsycBOOKS is a full text database of books published by the American Psychological Association, classic books, and entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.

PsycCRITIQUES offers full-text reviews of current books and some popular films, videos, and software,, as well as comparative reviews of books in the field of psychology.

PsycEXTRA is a gray literature database comprised of material written for professionals and disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals; documents include newsletters, magazines, newspapers, technical and annual reports, government reports, consumer brochures, and more.

Education Full Text provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Indexing coverage begins June 1983; abstracts are included beginning spring 1994; full text of some journals is available beginning in January 1996.

Family Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce,, family therapy, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Records are selected from many of the top titles within the discipline, including Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Marriage & Family, and Family Relations.

MEDLINE covers the international literature on biomedicine, including the allied health fields and the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from approximately 3,900 journals published world-wide.

PsycINFO covers the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.

Social Services Abstracts indexes and abstracts current research (articles are from 1980 to the present) in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Major areas of coverage include community and mental health services; crisis intervention; evaluation research; family and social welfare; gerontology; policy, planning and forecasting; poverty and homelessness; professional issues in social work; social development; social work education; support groups/networks; violence, abuse, and neglect; and welfare services.

Social Work Abstracts contains more than 26,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness; AIDS; child and family welfare; aging; substance abuse; legislation; community organization; and more.

Violence and Abuse Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

WestLaw Campus Research includes cases from the courts of all 50 states and the Federal courts; statutes from all 50 states and Federal statutes published in the United States Code Annotated; Federal regulations published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; American Law Reports, a publication containing attorney-written articles that summarize and analyze case law on a particular legal issue; and American Jurisprudence 2 ed; a comprehensive encyclopedia of state and federal law.

Prevent Child Abuse America is an organization comprised of friends, professionals, volunteers, donors and parents who provide leadership to promote and implement prevention efforts at both the national and local levels. Its prevention initiatives and events serve to create awareness of issues, needs, and efforts in communities across America.

Child Abuse and Disabilities: A New York State Perspective is a website and previous CD-ROM produced by Teachers College, Columbia University. Its publication was made possible by a grant from the New York State Office of Children and Family Services to the New York State Child Advocacy Resource and Consultation Center, a program of Safe Horizon Inc. It includes resource articles and information on medical concerns, interview strategies, first responders, disability jargon, webinar and video/audio clips, and much more.

Child Welfare Information Gateway connects child welfare and related professionals to comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. It features the latest on topics from prevention to permanency, including child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption. Included are information and resources on:

Stop It Now! is an organization that aims to stop child sexual abuse. The website includes a description of the problem, overview of the organization’s programs, news, and resources. Stop it Now! began in 1992 and has been preventing the sexual abuse of children by helping adults, families and communities take actions that keep kids safe – especially before they are ever harmed.” Tel. 413.587.3500

Pacer Center’s National Bullying Prevention Center was founded in 2006 to unite, engage and educate communities nationwide to address bullying through creative, relevant and interactive resources. PACER’s bullying prevention resources are designed to benefit all students, including students with disabilities.

Pacer Center’s Kids Against Bullying is an interactive, creative and relevant bullying prevention web site created for and by kids to raise awareness of bullying prevention in elementary schools. It includes videos, posters, stories, games, and much more.

Child Abuse Curriculum: ChildHelp: Childhelp’s Speak Up Be Safe curriculum helps children find their voice through age-appropriate teachings, and allows them to prevent abuse in their own lives. The curriculum is being used by schools throughout the country.